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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

We're thrilled to help reveal the cover for FRAGILE REIGN (Mortal Enchantment #2) by Stacey O'Neale! Check out the cover below, and let us know what you think in the comments. Then be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a $100 Amazon or B&N gift card!

Details about the cover, from author Stacey O'Neale:

In case you're curious about the cover, the model represents Marcus. The background represents the woodland court and the caves at the bottom are where the members of the royal family live. I chose caves because the woodland court protects the forests of the world. I didn't think they would choose to cut down trees to make a castle, so the massive caves worked out nicely. If you zoom in, you can see where the doors and windows are cut out. The inside is very lavish. If you read FRAGILE REIGN, you'll learn all about it.

It’s been a week since all hell broke loose…
Rumors of King Taron’s weakened powers have left the air court vulnerable. Kalin is desperate to awaken her akasha powers, except she doesn’t know how. Tension within the court is at an all-time high. Pressure is mounting for her to ascend to the throne, but a halfling has never ruled over any court. To solidify her position, the council has advised her to marry Sebastian—a high ranking air elemental she’s never met and her betrothed.
Will Kalin sacrifice her relationship with Rowan to strengthen her court?
Rowan and Marcus return to a fire court in turmoil. Liana’s death has fueled the fire elementals’ distrust against the air and woodland courts. The unbalanced elements have set off natural disasters all over the mortal world. Rowan takes the throne to restore balance, promising to unite the fire court. But not all elementals are happy with his leadership. Many are secretly loyal to Valac, which means Rowan needs to find allies for his cause.
Can Rowan unify the court of fire before the elements destroy the world?

About the Author

Stacey O’Neale lives in Annapolis, Maryland. When she’s not writing, she spends her time fangirling over books, blogging, watching fantasy television shows, cheering for the Baltimore Ravens, and hanging out with her husband and daughter.

Her career in publishing started as a blogger-turned-publicist for two successful small publishers. Stacey writes young adult paranormal romance and adult science fiction romance. Her books always include swoon-worthy heroes, snarky heroines, and lots of kissing.

Stacey loves hearing from readers. Follow her on Twitter @StaceyONeale, look for her on Facebook, Pinterest, and GoodReads. You can also visit her blog at http://staceyoneale.com/.

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When the caller shares the news that Sullivan's father is dying, Sullivan laughs and hangs up. He isn't being heartless, he just knows that it can't be true - because his father already passed away... ten years ago.

Like a bad dream, the calls keep coming and DNA results turn Sullivan's world upside down. There is only one way, and very little time, to figure out the truth. He packs his bags for the small town of Ferry Creek, North Carolina.

Once Sullivan arrives, he must confront a past he never knew existed, including a half-brother who lives above their family diner. The longer he spends away from his wealthy lifestyle and successful business, the more he falls in love with the small town, its community... and waitress, Jess Winthorne.

Can Sullivan Chasen go back to his normal life after learning about his past or will he discover the missing piece of his heart in Ferry Creek?

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Today is the day! The cover of Gena Showalter's THE QUEEN OF ZOMBIE HEARTS is here! We're so excited to be able to share this with you as it joins an already stunning set! Ready to see it? Not quite yet lets take a look a the first two covers in the series!

In the stunning conclusion to the wildly popular White Rabbit Chronicles, Alice
"Ali" Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the
next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers…until
Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack,
killing four of her friends. It's then she realizes that humans can be more
dangerous than monsters…and the worst has only begun.

As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control
the zombies…and she isn't the girl she thought she was. She's connected to the
woman responsible for killing—and turning—Cole's mother. How can their
relationship endure? As secrets come to light, and more slayers are taken or
killed, Ali will fight harder than ever to bring down Anima—even sacrificing her
own life for those she loves.

About Gena:

Gena Showalter is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of the wildly popular White Rabbit Chronicles, the Angels of the Dark, the Lords of the Underworld, and the Otherworld Assassins series. In addition to being a National Reader's Choice and RITA nominee, her romance novels have appeared in Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazine, and have been translated in multiple languages. She lives in Oklahoma with her family and menagerie of dogs, and truly believes love conquers all.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

This prequel novella will be FREE and available on Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble on March 25, 2014!

Every sacrifice has consequences.

Sixteen-year-old Rowan has spent most of his life living among the mortals—learning to control the element of fire, impatiently awaiting the day his vengeful mother, Queen Prisma, will abdicate her throne. When he finally returns to Avalon for his coronation, his mother insists he must first prove his loyalty to the court by completing a secret mission:

Kill Kalin, the half-human, half-elemental daughter of the air court king.

Willing to do anything to remove his mother from power, he agrees to sacrifice the halfling. He returns to the mortal world with his best friend, Marcus, determined to kill the princess. But as he devises a plan, he starts to question whether or not he's capable of completing such a heinous task. And what price he will pay if he refuses?

Stacey O'Neale started her career in publishing as a blogger turned publicist for two successful small publishers. She loves to write stories with swoony paranormal heroes, snarky heroines, and lots of kissing.

When she's not writing, she loves blogging and fangirling about books on twitter. Occasionally, she leaves her computer to go outside.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Blurb:
Never in all the kingdom has there been a more brave and protective champion. Nor such a loyal and capable maiden. And they loved each other desperately.
But is their love strong enough to withstand all their dark age holds—danger, feudalism, disease, and unfair oppression?
Yes, they truly loved each other desperately.
They loved their kingdom more.

Author Jaclyn M. Hawkes

Jaclyn M. Hawkes grew up in Utah with 6 sisters, 4 brothers and any number of pets. (It was never boring!) She got a bachelor’s degree, had a career and traveled extensively before settling down to her life’s work of being the mother of four magnificent and sometimes challenging children. She loves shellfish, the out of doors, the youth and hearing her children laugh. She and her fine husband, their family, and their sometimes very large pets, now live in a mountain valley in northern Utah, where it smells like heaven and kids still move sprinkler pipe.

Oh, man, I’ve never gotten this one. Obviously, I think my own heroes are the most delicious, but I’m sure that’s not what you want to know. So, okay . . . I love those totally masculine and competent but gentlemen in these books. Love those protectors! Definitely not sissies!

1 Matt Keelock in The Key Lock Man By Louis L’amour

2 Sinbad in Flower of the Windsby Dorothy Keddington

3 Chance Kirkham in Chance Encounter by Jennie Hansen

4 Marcus in The Guardian by Dee Henderson

5 Joe in True Devotion by Dee Henderson

6 Ryder in Dusty Britches by Marcia Lynn McClure

7 Matt in The Undercurrent Series by Traci Hunter Abramson

8 Conner in No Time For Love by Nancy Campbell-Allen

9 Sloan in Murder By Design by Betsy Brannon-Green I know, kind of a wild man and not even the main guy, but . . . I would have picked him instead

10 Prince Garrett in Royal Target by Traci Hunter Abramson

Happy reading! Jaclyn

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Starcrossed, a Starstruck novel by Brenda Hiatt, is out now! To celebrate the release we are happy to share an interview with Princess Emileia and Rigel Stuart as well as an excerpt from the book. Be sure to stay tuned to the end where there's a giveaway as well!

The Starstruck adventure continues…

Blurb:

Marsha
spent the first fifteen years of her life as a nerdy nobody before
discovering her true identity as the long lost princess of a secret
civilization. Now M is dodging extraterrestrial paparazzi while trying
to keep the truth from her adoptive aunt and uncle and everyone at
school. At least she can be herself with her boyfriend and literal
soulmate, Rigel. Whenever they’re together, it’s easy to forget the
responsibilities that will eventually come with her new status. But when
a new boy arrives at Jewel High, everything M thought she knew about
herself and her future is turned upside down. Now the very destiny that
lifted her from obscurity threatens to tear her away from Rigel and
their happy ever after. But when two planets conspire against you, where
is there to run?

I’m
sitting here in a charming little ice cream shop in Jewel, Indiana, to chat
with our newfound Princess Emileia and Rigel Stuart, the boy who recently saved
her life when she was attacked by the dictator Faxon’s minions here on Earth.

Tell me, Princess, how did it feel to
discover your true identity after being raises as a Duchas?

With
great presence of mind, the Princess immediately shushes me. “Not so loud! And
please, stick to English. I don’t want everyone in Dream Cream to freak out the
way I did when Rigel first told me there are . . . people like us…living on
Earth!”

Given
the pains our Nuathan Ministry of Terran Obfuscation has taken to keep that
secret, I suppose she has a point. I lower my voice as I continue.

Is that true, Rigel? Did the Princess
‘freak out?’

“Only
for a day or so,” he replies. “Really, she handled the news like a champ—way
better than I did when my parents first told me.”

So you were raised Duch— I catch myself. Like a regular Earthling, too?

Though
it seems terribly disrespectful, far be it from me to disobey. M, then. How has your life changed since
learning the truth?

“If
you don’t count people trying to kill me, mostly for the better. I mean, back
in August I was a complete nobody on the very bottom rung of the social ladder.
Now I hardly get picked on at all—well, except by Trina, but that’ll never
change. I even get invited to parties and stuff. Not that my aunt ever lets me
go, but it’s still cool to be invited. But that’s not because of being, you
know, who I am. Nobody at school knows about that.”

Unfortunately,
this coincides with the rumors of her being mistreated by her adoptive Duchas family and the surrounding
townsfolk.

Then why the change?

“Mostly
because of Rigel. He’s pretty popular, what with being quarterback of our
football team and just generally awesome. I’m just kind of along for the ride.”

“Not
true!” Rigel interjects. “You’re the awesome one. It just took people a while
to figure it out.”

The
Princess laughs at this and claims, “Nobody would ever have called me awesome
before—” She breaks off when Rigel raises his eyebrows at her.

Not
wishing to pry, I move on. You must be
dying to tell everyone the truth about yourself. Is it hard living with such a
huge secret?

“Sometimes,”
she confesses, “but when I think about what could happen if people found out, I’m
a lot less tempted to say anything.”

And what was your life like, growing up as
a—you used the word ‘nobody’ in a non-Echtran
household? Was it difficult living in such primitive conditions?

She
laughs again. “Since I never knew anything else, I never thought of my
conditions as primitive. And it’s not like my aunt was ever actually cruel or
anything, even if she isn’t always easy to get along with.”

All right, then, next question. Once a
certain dictator falls, how do you see your future unfolding? Are you excited
at the prospect of someday returning to the place you were born?

The
Princess shrugs. “I guess so, though I have an awful lot to learn before I’ll
be ready for that! All the stuff people will expect of me, I mean. Besides, I’m
pretty happy right here in Jewel for now. For instance, I went to my very first
Homecoming dance last week and it was amazing.”

Oh? With Rigel here as your date?

“Well,
yes. He and I—”

“Went
with a bunch of our friends,” Rigel butts in, cutting her off for the second
time, something he’d never dare to do in Nuath, I’m sure.

This
makes me very curious. You two have
shared a few harrowing experiences since meeting and I’m sure that’s created a
bond of sorts. (I notice they exchange a glance when I say that.) Tell me, just how close have you two become?

At
this point, Rigel stands up, then the Princess stands, too. “We said we’d give
you five minutes,” Rigel says, “and we’ve been here longer than that. You have
your story. And please tell your readers she’s tired of being stalked, okay?”

The
Princess is much more polite, but it’s clear she’s ready to leave, too, so I
don’t detain them.

Overall, I’d say our Princess
seems surprisingly content with her new identity and especially with her knight
in shining armor, Rigel Stuart. It will be interesting to see how things
progress there once she’s called upon to take up the position she was born
to—but I’ll leave that story to my colleagues in Nuath, who will be on the spot
to witness it firsthand.

STARCROSSED EXCERPT:

“Hey,
did you hear there’s a new transfer?” Debbi Andrews asked the moment I sat next
to her in Geometry class.

Petite and blond, Deb was my second-best
friend after Brianna Morrison, though lately it seemed like the two of them
were closer to each other than to me. Not that I could blame them, between the
time I spent with Rigel and all the secrets I couldn’t tell them.

“Really? Two in one semester must be a
record.” I grinned over at Rigel, who’d been the new kid at the start of the
school year. “Boy or girl?”

“Boy. I haven’t seen him yet. I think he’s a
junior or senior. Natalie said—”

The teacher cleared his throat then and Deb
had to shut up. I was sure I’d hear more later, from Bri if not from Deb. New
students were a huge deal at our little rural school.

Sure enough, the new guy was the first thing
Bri talked about when we met up with her in the lunchroom a couple hours later.

“Hey, Rigel, looks like you’re off the hook
for the basketball team.” Bri had been pestering Rigel for days to try out,
egged on by her father, who was on the coaching staff. “This new guy, Sean, is
just what our sucky team needs, according to my dad.”

“Sean?” Deb asked eagerly. “So that’s his
name?”

I glanced at Rigel, who looked more relieved
than curious. I, meanwhile, was having a mild deja vu moment,
remembering when Bri had been all excited about the wonderful new quarterback
we were getting—Rigel.

“Yeah, Sean O’Gara,” Bri told Deb.

“So, is it true he’s from Ireland? That’s
what Natalie told me this morning.”

Bri nodded, her long, dark curls bouncing.
“That’s what Dad said, too. I didn’t even know they played basketball in
Ireland! But apparently it’s huge there.”

“Ireland? Really?” I glanced at Rigel again,
remembering something he’d told me a while back, and saw he looked a little
more interested.

“Yeah, he and his family just moved here
last— Ooh, that must be him!” Bri broke off to point.

Of course, we all looked. The new guy was
definitely tall enough to play basketball, maybe three or four inches taller
than Rigel. He was fair bordering on pale, with bright, copper-colored hair.
Very good looking, though of course he couldn’t compete with Rigel in that
department. Who could?

It looked to me like plenty of people—mainly
girls—were already doing just that. Again I was reminded of Rigel’s first day,
especially when I saw Trina Squires—cheerleader, flirt and bitch
extraordinaire—saunter up to to the newcomer. Rigel and I followed Bri and Deb,
since it seemed the nice thing to do. We were maybe halfway across the
lunchroom when both of us stopped cold to stare at each other.

“Do you—?” Rigel asked.

* * *

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Brenda Hiatt is the author of nearly twenty novels (so far), including traditional Regency romance, time travel romance, historical romance, and humorous mystery. She is as excited about her new STARSTRUCK series as she's ever been about any of her books. In addition to writing, Brenda is passionate about embracing life to the fullest, to include scuba diving (she has over 60 dives to her credit), Taekwondo (where she recently achieved her 2nd degree black belt), hiking, traveling, and pursuing new experiences and skills. She is an active member of Romance Writers of America, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and Novelists, Inc, an international organization of multipublished novelists, where she served as President in 2006. For the past dozen years, Brenda has also collected data on writers' earnings, which she shares at her website, http://brendahiatt.com

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Joclyn Despain has been marred by a brand on her skin. She doesn't know why the mark appeared on her neck, but she doesn't want anyone to see it, including her best friend Ryland, who knows everything else about her. The scar is the reason she hides herself behind baggy clothes, and won't let the idea of kissing Ryland enter her mind, no matter how much she wants to. The scar is the reason she is being hunted.

If only she knew that she was.

If only she had known that the cursed stone her estranged father sent for her 16th birthday would trigger a change in her. Now, she is being stalked by a tall blonde man, and is miraculously throwing her high school bully ten feet in the air.

Joclyn attempts to find some answers and the courage to follow her heart. When Ryland finds her scar; only he knows what it means, and who will kill her because of it.

I'm a mother and I love every single moment of it. It is the best gift anyone could ever ask for and I thank God for her everyday. I'm also a wife and of course I'm the better half.. ha! No really, I am! I'm also a huge reader.. especially YA books! I go to sleep every night with a book in my hands. I especially love when a book can completely immerse me into its world and I lose all that is going on around me. I love reading and the feeling it gives me and wanted to share with others through my blog.